Download or read book Judaikitsch written by Jennifer Traig and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would happen if Martha Stewart were abducted by a tribe of trailer park rabbis? Judaikitsch! Filled to the brim with crafts, collectibles, and creative cooking, heres the ultimate guide to a funky, festive Jewish lifestyle. From everyday kitsch to holiday entertaining-and loads of mishegoss in between-Judaikitsch asks the all-important question: Why eat sushi when theres Jewshi? Put away that mizrach and hang up the Miz-Rock. Host a Sukkot Luau featuring a Poi Vey Pineapple Mold, and celebrate Rosh Mexicana with a heaping helping of Hava Tequila Pie. Guaranteed to amuse, Judaikitsch encourages readers to don their Starlet of David Sunglasses, buckle their Borscht Belts, and enjoy a ride through a world where Elvis sports sidelocks and cats and dogs wear yarmulkes. At last, essential reading for the Divine Miss Martha in us all.
Download or read book Longing Belonging and the Making of Jewish Consumer Culture written by Gideon Reuveni and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-07-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of essays illustrates the varied functions of consumer culture in the modern Jewish experience.
Download or read book Jews God and Videotape written by Jeffrey Shandler and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how media technology impacts the Jewish experience. This title explores mid-twentieth-century ecumenical radio and television broadcasting, video documentation of life cycle rituals, and museum displays and tourist practices as means for engaging the Holocaust as a moral touchstone
Download or read book Clothing Optional written by Julietta Appleton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-03-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oy veh! If this book chronicles Julietta's Appleton's first 50 years, one can only imagine the sequel! Julietta's mother died when she was nine. Her father, a blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter, sent his daughter to 17 different schools in the U.S. and Europe, including Catholic boarding schools. Julietta has lived in 36 different homes in 6 different countries, and developed a witty and keen sense of observation along the way. She survived her mother's peculiar health practices, grooved through the '60s without any permanent damage, raised and sent kids off to college, lived through the detonation of her marriage, and endured life in the suburbs as a single woman. A car accident in 1996 left her with a mild but permanent brain injury and chronic pain. And as if that were not enough, her fiancé of two months died suddenly of a heart attack just as the two were beginning a new life together. And yet, Julietta manages to find humor in everyday life-sex toys, hurricanes, chocolate, dating, and senile dementia are just some of her targets. She is wickedly funny, naughty, and provocative. Clothing Optional will make you laugh through your tears and cry through your laughter.
Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reinventing Ritual written by Daniel Belasco and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guidebook to the most current trends in contemporary Jewish art and design, Reinventing Ritual provides an unprecedented look at the work and thought of contemporary artists as they respond to the needs and practices of traditional culture. Beautifully illustrated with new art from Israel, Europe, and the Americas, this publication features both traditional and avant-garde sculpture, textiles, architecture, metalwork, and ceramics by forty leading artists. Author Daniel Belasco surveys current trends in Jewish ritual art and the influences of feminism, environmentalism, multiculturalism, and new media; Julie Lasky provides a groundbreaking discussion of the role of recycling and social consciousness in contemporary Jewish design; Danya Ruttenberg, a recently ordained rabbi, offers a lively perspective on the constantly evolving Jewish impulse "to concretize the encounter with the Divine"; Arnold M. Eisen writes an absorbing and personal commentary on the role of ritual in Jewish life today; and Tamar Rubin contributes an illustrated timeline covering key Jewish cultural and historical events from 1994 to 2008. Published in association with The Jewish Museum Exhibition Schedule: The Jewish Museum, New York (September 13, 2009-February 7, 2010) Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco (April 22 - September 28, 2010)
Download or read book Half Life written by Laurel Snyder and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2006-03-23 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by authors born into the so-called “dilemma of intermarriage,” the stories in Half/Life explore the experience of being raised in a half-Jewish home. Though each essay is distinct, and the experiences are vastly different, each describes growing up without a streamlined identity, unsure of community or religious direction. From Jenny Traig, whose experiences led her to extreme devotion in the form of religious-obsessive compulsion (scrupulosity) to Thisbe Nissen, who finally felt Jewish after discovering a rosary in her boyfriend’s sock drawer, these authors examine the complicated relationships they felt with the Jewish community and the world at large. By turns tragic and funny, religious and heartbreaking, angry and surprisingly familiar, Half/Life represents the altogether diverse memories and reflections of a handful of men and women who have spent a lifetime grappling with how to define themselves, or not. Resulting from that struggle is a complex exploration, and some truly brilliant prose.
Download or read book New York written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Devil in the Details written by Jennifer Traig and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer Traig's memoir Devil in the Details paints a portrait of a well-meaning Jewish girl and her good-natured parents, and takes a very funny, very sharp look back at growing up with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Recalling the agony of growing up an obsessive-compulsive religious fanatic, Traig fearlessly confesses the most peculiar behavior like tirelessly scrubbing her hands for a full half hour before dinner, feeding her stuffed animals before herself, and washing everything she owned because she thought it was contaminated by pork fumes. Jennifer's childhood mania was the result of her then undiagnosed OCD joining forces with her Hebrew studies-what psychiatrists call scrupulosity While preparing for her bat mitzvah, she was introduced to an entire set of arcane laws and quickly made it her mission to follow them perfectly. Her parents nipped her religious obsession in the bud early on, but as her teen years went by, her natural tendency toward the extreme led her down different paths of adolescent agony and mortification. Years later, Jennifer remembers these scenes with candor and humor. In the bestselling tradition of Running with Scissors and A Girl Named Zippy, Jennifer Traig tells an unforgettable story of youthful obsession.
Download or read book Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans written by Dave Eggers and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2005-06-14 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now more than ever, Americans are troubled by questions. As sweaty modernity thrusts itself upon us, the veil of ignorance that cloaked our nation hangs in tatters, tattered tatters. Our "funny bones" are neither fun nor bony. Glum is the new giddy, and the old giddy wasn't too giddy to begin with. What can be done to stop this relentless march of drabbery? Nothing. But perhaps this book can be used to dull the pain. Included herein: The Ten Worst Films of All Time, as Reviewed by Ezra Pound over Italian Radio Unused Audio Commentary by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky, Recorded Summer 2002, for The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring DVD (Platinum Series Extended Edition), Part One. How Important Moments in My Life Would Have Been Different If I Was Shot in the Stomach My Beard, Reviewed Circumstances under Which I Would Have Sex with Some of My Fellow Jurors Words That Would Make Nice Names for Babies, If It Weren't for Their Unsuitable Meanings As a Porn Movie Titler, I May Lack Promise Ineffective Ways to Subdue a Jaguar Eleven Lunch Meats I Have Invented Four Things I Would Have Said to Sylvia Plath if I Had Been Her Boyfriend And much, much more, including 20 brilliant new lists . . .
Download or read book Well Enough Alone written by Jennifer Traig and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-03 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hilarious first-person account of life as a hypochondriac-from the critically acclaimed author of Devil in the Details. Jennifer Traig does not suffer from lupus, multiple sclerosis, Crohn's Disease, or muscular dystrophy. Nor does she have SUDS, the mysterious disorder that claims healthy young Asian men in their sleep. What she does have is hypochondria. In Well Enough Alone, Traig provides an uproariously funny inquiry into her ailment, as well as a well-researched history of the disorder. While chronicling her life as a hypochondriac and the minor conditions that helped to fuel her persistent self-diagnosis, she offers a literary tour of the disorder's past and present. And by the end, her journey leaves her more knowledgeable, a little less neurotic, and-one might say-healthier.
Download or read book Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 2068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Retox written by Jennifer Traig and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2006-03-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So long, South Beach. Farewell, fat-free. Adieu, tofu. Retox is here to help bring back the good times and friends that fell by the wayside on that mind-numbing path to health and well-being. Putting the fun back in dysfunction, this antidote to detoxification calls out soul-searching, colon-cleansing, fasting, and fish oil. Broken down into informative chapters on all aspects of lifefrom Diet to Grooming to Relationships to CareerRetox goes where no book has gone before. It asks the tough questions such as: "When did irrigating one's bowels become a pastime of the rich and neurotic?" It offers tips on better loving while under the influence. It reveals exclusive Pretty Mess Makeover tips and much, much more! Far more effective than acupuncture, and not a total crock like reiki, Retox is designed to produce real change.
Download or read book Act Natural written by Jennifer Traig and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a distinctive, inimitable voice, a wickedly funny and fascinating romp through the strange and often contradictory history of Western parenting Why do we read our kids fairy tales about homicidal stepparents? How did helicopter parenting develop if it used to be perfectly socially acceptable to abandon your children? Why do we encourage our babies to crawl if crawling won’t help them learn to walk? These are just some of the questions that came to Jennifer Traig when—exhausted, frazzled, and at sea after the birth of her two children—she began to interrogate the traditional parenting advice she’d been conditioned to accept at face value. The result is Act Natural, hilarious and deft dissection of the history of Western parenting, written with the signature biting wit and deep insights Traig has become known for. Moving from ancient Rome to Puritan New England to the Dr. Spock craze of mid-century America, Traig cheerfully explores historic and present-day parenting techniques ranging from the misguided, to the nonsensical, to the truly horrifying. Be it childbirth, breastfeeding, or the ways in which we teach children how to sleep, walk, eat, and talk, she leaves no stone unturned in her quest for answers: Have our techniques actually evolved into something better? Or are we still just scrambling in the dark?
Download or read book Writing with a Thesis written by Sarah E. Skwire and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the principle that the ability to develop and support a thesis persuasively is of utmost importance for beginning writers, WRITING WITH A THESIS: A RHETORIC AND READER, 11th Edition, dispenses clear and practical writing advice. Sarah Skwire skillfully weaves humor into her advice and in the text's examples of good professional writing--for a uniquely useful text that remains enjoyable to read and to teach from. Best of all, the text's short, easy-to-read essays ensure that your class time will focus not on what the readings mean, but on what they mean for your students' writing.
